Drawer pull



A. J. BUDAI April 4, 1967 DRAWER PULL Filed Jan. 24, 1966 fA/vewrae. ANDREW J B0001 54... m/jw 14 rraemsw.

United States Patent Ofllice 3,311,943 DRAWER PULL Andrew J. Budai, La Crescenta, Calif., assignor to .layhee Manufacturing orporation, Los Angeies, Caiifi, a corporation of California Filed Jan. 24, 1966, Ser. No. 522,5% 2 Claims. (Q1. 16--125) This invention relates to cabinet hardware, and particularly to cabinet or drawer pulls.

A good deal of attention has recently been given to the cost of installing cabinet hardware. The use of selfclosing hinges, for example, is being revived in an attempt to avoid the use of catches. Yet little attention has been given to the problem of attachment of drawer pulls. Installation of a cabinet pull requires the drilling of two carefully spaced holes for the insertion of a pair of screws for engagement with the tapped holes of the pull legs. While drilling holes, as by the aid of a template, is a fast operation, afiixing screws takes a comparatively long time. Accordingly, the primary object of this invention is to reduce materially the time necessary for the attachment of the pull to a cabinet or drawer.

A companion object of this invention is to provide a new and improved drawer pull capable of ready installation without special tools, and which can be manufactured less expensively than conventional drawer pulls.

In order to accomplish the foregoing objects, I provide a cylindrical projection on one of the pull legs in place of the tapped hole. This projection closely fits one of the drilled cabinet holes, and a screw extending through the other hole engages the tapped hole in the other leg. The projection binds in its hole to prevent the pull from moving angularly about the screw-anchored end, and a very secure attachment is thus achieved.

This invention possesses many other advantages, and has other objects which may be made more clearly apparent from a consideration of one embodiment of the invention. For this purpose, there is shown a form in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the present specification, and which drawings are true scale. This form will now be described in detail, illustrating the general principles of the invention; but it is to be understood that this detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, since the scope of this invention is best defined by the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is a front elevational view of a typical cabinet structure incorporating a pair of pulls embodying the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken along a plane corresponding to line 2--2 of FIG. 1; and

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the pull itself, one leg thereof being shown in section.

Two identical pulls It and 12 are shown, example, installed on cabinet doors 14 and 16. These pulls may be made by casting, and suitably finished.

The hinge-mounted doors 14 and 16 are held in place by magnetic catches 1S and armature plates 20, all installed in a conventional manner.

The pull 10, as shown in FIG. 2, has a handle portion 22 and two leg portions 24 and 25. The leg portions have surfaces 26 and 27 defining a plane of contact with the cabinet door 14. One leg portion 24 is of conventional form, having the usual tapped hole 28 opening at the surface 26. This hole 28 is cooperable with a screw 30 that passes through a drilled hole 32 of the cabinet door 14. By way of example, the screw size may be 4 in which case a drill may be used for the hole 32.

In a conventional pull, the leg portions terminate at by Way of 3,311,943 Patented Apr. 4, 1967 the contact plane. However, the other leg 25 has a cylindrical projection 34 that fits another drilled hole 36,

formed in the cabinet door 14, that is the same size as the hole 32. The axis 38 of the tapped recess 28 and the axis 4d of the cylindrical projection 34 are parallel and perpendicular to the contact plane. These axes are spaced accurately according to prevailing standards in the construction area. For example, these axes 38 and 40 may be spaced precisely on 3 centers. By using a suitable drill guide or template, the holes 32 and 36 may be quickly drilled.

The projection 34 has an outside diameter that conforms precisely to the drill size. However, it preferably tapers very slightly so that the base end is slightly oversized to achieve a wedging fit at this area. This taper also provides requisite mold draft.

The pull it} is readily installed by first placing the projection 34 in the hole 36, then aligning the tapped recess 28, and then installing the screw 30. The projection extends almost the entire length of the hole 36. In any event, its length is sufficient to produce binding upon attempted angular movement of the pull about its screwanchored end. Accordingly, a secure attachment results.

Only one leg of the cast pull need be drilled and tapped, and manufacture is thus simplified. The design of the pull itself is, of course, immaterial, and the invention may be embodied in a pull of any design.

The inventor claims:

1. A cabinet pull having a handle portion and a pair of leg portions joined to the handle portion, said leg portions together defining a cabinet contacting plane; one of said legs having an extent terminating on the handle side of said contact plane, and having an interiorly threaded recess opening toward said contact plane, the axis of said recess being substantially perpendicular to said contact plane; the other of said legs having a substantially cylindrical projection integrally joined to the corresponding leg and extending substantially perpendicular to said contact plane and at least partially on the opposite side of said contact plane; the center-to-center distance of the projection and the recess being controlled for alignment with holes drilled in a cabinet to a corresponding standard; that part of said projection extending on the opposite side of said contact plane having a diameter substantially matching the size of a hole for closely receiving a screw cooperable with said threaded recess whereby the said extension may closely fit a hole of corresponding size, said projection part having a length sufiicient to produce binding between the extension and the hole upon attempted angular movement of the extension in its hole thus to provide attachment of said pull by the aid of a single screw.

2. The pull as set forth in claim 1 in which said projection part is slightly tapered to produce a slight wedging action in its hole as well as to provide draft for removal of said projection from a mold.

References Cited by the Examiner FOREIGN PATENTS 717,076 10/1954 Great Britain.

EDWARD C. ALLEN, Primary Examiner.

D. L. TROUTMAN, Assistant Examiner. 

1. A CABINET PULL HAVING A HANDLE PORTION AND A PAIR OF LEG PORTIONS JOINED TO THE HANDLE PORTION, SAID LEG PORTIONS TOGETHER DEFINING A CABINET CONTACTING PLANE; ONE OF SAID LEGS HAVING AN EXTENT TERMINATING ON THE HANDLE SIDE OF SAID CONTACT PLANE, AND HAVING AN INTERIORLY THREADED RECESS OPENING TOWARD SAID CONTACT PLANE, THE AXIS OF SAID RECESS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY PREPENDICULAR TO SAID CONTACT PLANE; THE OTHER OF SAID LEGS HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL PROJECTION INTEGRALLY JOINED TO THE CORRESPONDING LEG AND EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID CONTACT PLANE AND AT LEAST PARTIALLY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID CONTACT PLANE; THE CENTER-TO-CENTER DISTANCE OF THE PROJECTION AND THE RECESS BEING CONTROLLED FOR ALIGNMENT WITH HOLES DRILLED IN A CABINET TO A CORRESPONDING STANDARD; THAT PART OF SAID PROJECTION EXTENDING ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID CONTACT PLANE HAVING A DIAMETER SUBSTANTIALLY MATCHING THE SIZE OF A HOLE FOR CLOSELY RECEIVING A SCREW COOPERABLE WITH SAID THREADED RECESS WHEREBY THE SAID EXTENSION MAY CLOSELY FIT A HOLE OF CORRESPONDING SIZE, SAID PROJECTION PART HAVING A LENGTH SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE BINDING BETWEEN THE EXTENSION AND THE HOLE UPON ATTEMPTED ANGULAR MOVEMENT OF THE EXTENSION IN ITS HOLE THUS TO PROVIDE ATTACHMENT OF SAID PULL BY THE AID OF A SINGLE SCREW. 